So Standard Life becomes the latest indyref company to shed jobs it insisted would only be jeopardised by a Yes vote. It joins RBS, HMRC, BAE Systems and others in the hall of indyref ‘no-shame’. The news that seventy Edinburgh…

Yet again, with the issue of fracking, we find disturbing echoes of the first referendum campaign in which the British media sought to cast doubt on every statement made by anybody even remotely connected to the Yes campaign while treating…

When is a scare-story not a scare-story? What defines a scare-story? Surely it’s a matter of credibility. It’s all to do with how realistic is the threat when assessed dispassionately and without prejudice. Pretty much all of the scare-stories peddled…

Two weeks ago I wrote an article giving my thoughts on any attempt to re-create Yes Scotland. I argued that any such body would require to have input across the pro-independence political divide. Below is a key paragraph: “Any attempt…

It’s not difficult to discern the thinking behind this latest pronouncement from that bastion of the British establishment and second-largest unelected legislature in the world, the House of Lords. An institution which, perhaps more than any other, embodies and exemplifies…

I have no interest in trying to predict the outcome of the EU referendum. I’ve never really seen the point in hoping to know the result is advance. Sure! Campaign planners need guidance on where to put resources. And speculation…

It is probably true that “Westminster-watchers” are obsessing about whether Stewart Hosie stepped down voluntarily or was forced to do so by Nicola Sturgeon. It is certainly true that this is a sad reflection on the state of political journalism.…

Rangers Football Club has slammed the post-match reactions of several journalists and the Scottish government after violent scenes marred the clubs’ Scottish Cup Final with Hibernian. In an official statement published on the club’s official website, Rangers said it found…